Media Manager

£33,926pa

Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL / Hybrid Working

If you have experience of working in a fast-moving press office or newsroom and know how to use compelling storytelling to generate strong media coverage and help drive change, this is a unique opportunity to use your talents for good.

WWF UK is the leading global environmental charity and we’re bringing our world back to life. With nature in freefall, we’re urgently tackling the underlying causes driving this decline – especially the food system and climate change. And we’re finding solutions so future generations have a world with thriving habitats and wildlife. You can join the fight and help drive this change in the role of Media Manager (News).

 As Media Manager, you will develop media strategies to secure positive news coverage across UK national TV, print and online outlets for key advocacy and programmatic campaigns, you will develop strong relationships with relevant journalists and become a natural ‘go to’ contact for environmental stories. We want you to help make our message the loudest, most respected and reliable in the UK media, and to grab the attention of the public and decision makers so they join the fight for our world.

This will involve collaborating with colleagues to commission high impact content and identifying opportunities to land our key messages in UK media. You will write press releases and pitches for multiple and fast-paced work streams too. You will be on the front line to answer journalist enquiries, accompany journalists to report on our work as well as monitor and evaluate the success of media activities. It is important that you have the ability to take part in our ‘out of hours’ press office service (rota basis).

For this high-profile role, you must have worked in a fast-moving press office or newsroom and can demonstrate a track record of delivering high quality media coverage.  An excellent communicator, you will also write and produce content to a high standard, at short notice and often under pressure.  You will have a natural ability to spot and utilise proactive media opportunities and must possess good multitasking and relationship building skills. You will have an excellent understanding of the UK media landscape and the ability to sell in international stories to UK media too.

Sound knowledge of current affairs, global wildlife conservation and environment issues would be an advantage.

 If you have the skills to change hearts and minds through great media work and are passionate about building a movement to bring our world back to life, we would love to hear from you.

Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and the Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.